Perforating-pen



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l1?:amummm PEN.

No.` 246,246. 2 Patented Aug. 23,1881.

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J. TRAINER.

PERFORATING'PEN.

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NITE STATES JOHN TRAINER, OF BLUE MOUND, ILLINOIS.

PERFORATlNG-PEN.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 246,246, dated August 23, 1881.

Application led August 25, 1879.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN TRAINER, of Blue Mound, Macon county, and State ot' Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Operating Stencil-Pelis, which will be fully understood by the following description and claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side view of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a detached view ot the pen, ratchet-wheel, and spring. Fig. 3 is a front view ofthe machine. Fig. 4 is a side view of the frame.

The frame of my machine consists ofthe side plates, A A, connected by bolts I I, and a U- shaped plate, a., connected with said plates A A by l'our screw-bolts, I), Fig. 4. The U-plate has a tube, V, in which the pen O works, and a slotted guide, W, to prevent the spring B from being swung to one side by the action of the ratchet-wheel D in operating the pen.

Upon the frame A are arranged four horizontal shafts or axles, E, F, G, and H. The main axle, E, is provided with a coiled spring, S, one end ot' which is attached to said axle, and the other end is attached to one of the cross-bolts I of the frame. 'lhis axle also carries a gear-wheel, J, and ratchet-pinion M, having a pawl or dog, It, held in the usual manner by a spring, c. By a key or crank the axle E is turned and the coiled spring wound up in order t0 give motion to themachine, as will be soon explained. lhe gear-wheel Jengages with a pinion, N, and thus gives motion to the central axle, F, and its gear-wheel K,

as shown in Fig. l. The gear-wheel Kin turn enga-ges with pinion O on the third axle G, and thus transmits motion to said axle and its gear-wheel L, and the gear-wheel L engages with pinion P on the axle H, which carries the internal ratchet-wheel, D, to move the pen. Thus my machine employs four axles, three gear-wheels, three pinions, and two ratchetwheels for operatin g the perforatin g pen. The pen is attached to and carried by a platespring, B, Fig. 1, which drives the pen downward. The end ot' this spring projects into and works upon the internal ratchet ot' wheel D. Asthe ratchet-wheel revolves each tooth of the ratchet raises the spring and pen,which makes astroke at each notch in the ratchet, thus vastly multiplying thestrokes of the pen, already made numerous and rapid by the mul- -tiplied gearing above described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- In a machine for operating' a. perforatingpen, the combination, with the ratchet-Wheel D and operatingmechanism,and the U-sllaped plate having pen-tube V and the pen, of the intermediate slotted guide, W, and the platespring B, the several parts constructed and relatively arranged to operate substantially in the manner herein shown and described.

JOHN TRAINER.

'Witnessesz JOHN D. SEILERLING, ANDREW N. ARMSTRONG. 

